Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency session of EC Foreign Ministers held in Oslo ( where most were gathered for a NATO meeting ) nevertheless ruled out any renegotiation of the Treaty while declaring that the " door remains open for the Danes to come back " . |
| 2 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
| 3 | So the question , where a wording which was not accepted by tradition was used , was always whether it was intended by the testator to give rise to a relationship at law ; and the words were examined for an intention to set up a trust . |
| 4 | Casmance separatists fighting for the independence of the southern province were blamed for a series of attacks in mid-1990 in which civilians as well as armed forces personnel appeared to be the targets , with 13 deaths reported by the end of July . |
| 5 | They were silhouetted for a moment on the brow of the hill against a last pool of light among encroaching black storm-clouds . |
| 6 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
| 7 | Seven of our Section were detached for a fortnight to make our creche , so each day after parade they would go off with a Corporal to hump sand , fill wheelbarrows with moss and look for things to add to the project . |
| 8 | Tenders were sought for a prototype body , 50 feet long and 8 feet wide , clearances for which were tested with the remaining Coronations . |
| 9 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 10 | In the late 1970s plans were prepared for a fleet of HSTs to operate the North East-South West ( Newcastle/Leeds-Cardiff/Plymouth ) route and these were introduced from 1982 . |
| 11 | The people of Ben Ami were not frightened but they were prepared for an enemy ; and visitors interested in the Arab–Jewish war of 1948 were well advised to present convincing explanations for their questions before they stirred memories too deeply . |
| 12 | Throughout his time at university , Gedge was still seeing Janet Rigby , although they were separated for a year while she finished her ‘ A ’ Levels in Middleton . |
| 13 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 14 | From 1990 to 1992 , demographic information and serum samples were collected for a study of cardiovascular morbidity from over 8000 persons in five distinct regions of Turkey : Istanbul , a large urban centre in the northwest ; Ayvalik , an Aegean coastal town ; Aydin , a factory city in the southwest ; Trabzon region , rural Black Sea villages in the northeast ; and Adana , a warm southeastern city , with an agricultural-based economy . |
| 15 | He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’ |
| 16 | Thereafter , although the Florentines continued to import English wool , they did not carry it in their own ships , and in the 1480s proposals were made for a wool staple at Pisa , with English ships having the monopoly of the carrying . |
| 17 | Meanwhile plans were made for a visit to Italy . |
| 18 | When it is applied to video materials for language teaching , it mostly seems to mean that the materials were made for an audience of native speakers . |
| 19 | Calls were made for an end to commercial strikes and to the involvement of children in the process . |
| 20 | The baths were closed for a fortnight at least , for a complete disinfection , a change of water , much stronger chlorification and new instructions for the cleansing of the feet of would-be bathers and a thorough check-up of the much higher chlorine addition . |
| 21 | In , all visual aids were used for a purpose . |
| 22 | MSL were used for a variety of recruitment problems at various levels . |
| 23 | Commons nearer to settlements were used for a variety of purposes . |
| 24 | Some of the earliest reinforcements were used for a counter-attack by Linsingen and Bohm-Ermolli on the northern edge of Brusilov 's offensive . |
| 25 | If a new Prime Minister were needed for an emergency coalition and no obvious successor existed , the Sovereign would have to make the best choice possible . |
| 26 | TWO hand-written Beatles ' Sergeant Pepper lyrics were sold for a total of £85,000 at an auction of pop memorabilia yesterday . |
| 27 | Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million , with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 28 | Eastern Europe also provided an enthusiastic market , as Commodore 64 computers , obsolete in the west , were sold for a song to young people eager for unity and a non-communist identity . |
| 29 | In June and July , the two months following the decision to make visitors to the Boboli Gardens pay at the gate , a total of 88,000 tickets were sold for a revenue of L364 million ( £173,300 ; $346,700 ) . |
| 30 | The 38 bulls sold averaged £1,738.57 compared with £1,665.24 last year and four steers were sold for an average of £475.13 . |